Politeness strategy used in conversational verses of surah Al A'raaf

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Sekarwangi, Dewi (2018) Politeness strategy used in conversational verses of surah Al A'raaf. Undergraduate thesis, UIN Sunan Ampel Surabaya.

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Abstract

This study discussed about politeness strategies, include bald-on record, positive politeness, negative politeness, and bald-off record strategy. This study focuses on the utterances, phrases, and sentences which containing politeness strategy used by speakers in conversational verses of Surah al-A‘raaf. The aims of this study are to describe what kinds of politeness strategy that used in conversational verses of Surah al-A’raaf and what factors that might influence the use of politeness strategy. The data in this study were identified and analyzed by using the theory of politeness strategy based on Brown and Levinson’s theory (1987). The qualitative approach is used in this study, because this study concerns with describing the process of language in conversational verses of Surah al-A’raaf. The data taken was taken from utterances, phrases, and sentences that used by speakers in Surah al-A’raaf. After that, the data were identified and classified based on Brown and Levinson’s theory (1987). This study found that there are 41 data containing politeness strategies. From all kinds of politeness, there are 13 data containing bald-on record strategy, 12 data containing positive politeness strategy, 13 data containing negative politeness strategy, and 3 data containing bald-off record strategy. The factors influencing the politeness strategy usage are, payoff and relevance circumstances: social distance, relative power, and ranking of imposition. Those factors are influencing all of the data with different scales or degrees.